Transitions that matter

A scoping review by the Centre for Care has looked at transitions in social care are researched.  It notes how the language of ‘transitions’ in social care is often used when talking about how people move from children’s care services into adult support when the concept of transition is much wider than this: it is about the changes that disabled people, older people and people using mental health services want to make (and are facilitated to make) in their lives.

BAME patients have poorer access and outcomes from NHS talking therapies but can hugely improve with better access

A review of 10 years of anonymised patient data has found that historically, people from Black and minoritised ethnic backgrounds have experienced poorer access to, and outcomes from, NHS talking therapies. It finds that poor outcomes can be tackled and even disappear when access is improved and culturally sensitive therapy is provided.

Ethnic Inequalities in Improving Access to Psychological Therapies (IAPT) (nhsrho.org)

Advocacy for inpatients with learning disabilities or autism

The National Development team for Inclusion has published in-depth research about people’s views and experiences of accessing, commissioning, working alongside and delivering a range of types of independent advocacy for people with a learning disability and autistic people who are inpatients in mental health, learning disability or autism specialist hospitals. It highlights the systemic, legislative, cultural, service level and human issues that impact on people’s experiences of independent advocacy while they are in hospital, as well as sharing ideas about how these can be improved.

Full-Report-A-review-of-advocacy-31-Oct-23.pdf (ndti.org.uk)

Tackling racial discrimination in disciplinary procedures

NHS Providers in collaboration with law firm Hempsons have published a comprehensive guide for trust leaders on how to tackle racial discrimination in disciplinary procedures and create a more inclusive and equitable work environment.

Despite annual measurement and reporting on this metric since 2015, the disciplinary gap in the NHS persists, with ethnic minority staff being disproportionately likely to enter formal disciplinary processes compared with their white counterparts. This guide aims to support board members to have an increased awareness and understanding of the existing disparity and provides practical advice and examples of how the gap can be reduced.

Closing the gap: a guide to addressing racial discrimination in disciplinaries (nhsproviders.org)

Anti-racism approach that mental health providers should adopt

NHS England has outlined the participatory approach to anti-racism with patients and carers that mental health trusts and mental health providers should take to improve experiences of care for racialised and ethnically and culturally diverse communities.

NHS England » Patient and carer race equality framework

10 years since public health became responsibility of local government

2023 marks the tenth anniversary of the transfer of public health from primary care trusts to local government. To mark the occasion the Local Government Association has interviewed key figures closest to the reforms. Some of the interviews are deliberately challenging and provocative; some of them present a picture of what is already happening in local government; some of them look to what more local and national government could do in the future, either with additional powers or by using their existing powers and remit.

Maintaining our momentum: Public health in local government | Local Government Association

Suicide Prevention Bulletin available

Please find the latest suicide prevention bulletin produced by the NHs Mersey Care Foundation Trust Evidently Better team. If you are unable to access any of the included articles please contact acadmeic.library@lscft.nhs.uk.

30 October 2023 – Evidently Better

Reducing health inequalities through acting on the social determinants of health: innovative approaches by provider trusts 

This report outlines how four London trusts (Barts Health NHS Trust, East London NHS Foundation Trust, Great Ormond Street Hospital and Mid and South Essex NHS Foundation Trust) are taking action to improve employment, increase income, improve education and reduce air pollution.

Trusts develop innovative approaches to tackling social determinants of health – UCLPartners